Data Scientist, Principal

Blackbaud India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackbaud India is seeking a strategically minded Principal Data Scientist to design enterprise decision intelligence at scale. You will combine strategic thinking with deep AI expertise to transform predictive models, business rules, and generative AI into trusted, production‑ready intelligence.

You’ll collaborate across data, platform, and business teams to shape decisions that are explainable, governed, and AI‑powered, helping organizations move faster with confidence in a responsible,

Qualifications

• 8+ years delivering applied analytics, machine learning, or AI systems in production.
• Expertise in predictive modeling and decision systems, including evaluation, monitoring, drift detection, and thresholding.
• Experience with Python and modern ML/AI development workflows.
• Ability to influence technical direction and drive responsible AI across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of enterprise decision intelligence systems that combine predictive models, business rules, and generative AI into actionable outputs.
• Establish scalable decision modeling patterns to support recommendations, risk scoring, anomaly detection, and summarization.
• Define how contextual data becomes decision-ready, interpretable, and aligned to enterprise meaning.
• Guide production-grade ML/Generative AI solutions, ensuring outputs are grounded, testable, and reliable.
• Build evaluation frameworks measuring accuracy, calibration, drift, groundedness, and consistency.
• Partner with data, architecture, and platform teams to ensure observability and scalability.

Skills

Predictive modeling

Machine learning

Python

Generative AI

Decision systems

Job description

• We’re looking for a strategically minded and AI‑expert Principal Data Scientist to design and elevate how Blackbaud delivers decision intelligence at enterprise scale. In this role, you will combine strategic thinking with deep AI expertise to transform how predictive models, business logic, and generative AI come together into trusted, production‑ready intelligence.
• You’ll partner across data, platform, and business teams to shape how decisions are generated, explained, and governed—fueling responsible, AI‑powered solutions that help organizations move faster with confidence. This role plays a critical leadership role in Blackbaud’s evolution into an AI‑native company, advancing how intelligence is embedded into products and decision workflows.

About The Role

• We’re looking for a strategically minded and AI‑expert Principal Data Scientist to design and elevate how Blackbaud delivers decision intelligence at enterprise scale. In this role, you will combine strategic thinking with deep AI expertise to transform how predictive models, business logic, and generative AI come together into trusted, production‑ready intelligence.
• You’ll partner across data, platform, and business teams to shape how decisions are generated, explained, and governed—fueling responsible, AI‑powered solutions that help organizations move faster with confidence. This role plays a critical leadership role in Blackbaud’s evolution into an AI‑native company, advancing how intelligence is embedded into products and decision workflows.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design of enterprise decision intelligence systems that combine predictive models, business rules, and generative AI into clear, actionable outputs
• Establish scalable decision modeling patterns that support recommendations, prioritization, risk scoring, anomaly detection, and summarization across the business
• Define how contextual data is transformed into decision‑ready intelligence that is interpretable, explainable, and aligned to enterprise meaning
• Guide the development of production‑grade machine learning and generative AI solutions, ensuring outputs are grounded, testable, and reliable
• Build and evolve evaluation frameworks that measure decision quality, including accuracy, calibration, drift, groundedness, and consistency over time
• Partner cross‑functionally with data, architecture, and platform teams to ensure decision systems are observable, scalable, and aligned to enterprise standards
• Lead root‑cause analysis of decision or model failures and translate insights into systemic improvements across teams

What You’ll Bring

• 8 or more years of experience delivering applied analytics, machine learning, or AI systems in production environments
• Expertise in predictive modeling and decision systems, including evaluation, monitoring, drift detection, and thresholding strategies. Strong understanding of generative AI systems, including grounding techniques, structured outputs, and common failure modes.
• Experience working with Python and modern machine learning or AI development workflows.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and partner across teams to drive adoption of scalable, responsible AI practices

Blackbaud powers social impact through purpose‑driven technology and responsible AI. Guided by our Intelligence for Good® vision, we’re building a culture where innovation, trust, and human expertise come together to help organizations make a greater difference in the world.

Blackbaud is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining an inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.